Flake debris—the by-product of lithic reduction—is abundant, not subject to uncontrolled
collection, and sometimes culturally diagnostic. Its greatest virtue, however, is in registering …

This book is the first comprehensive manual on stone artifact analysis, with detailed
examples of how to measure, record and analyse stone tools and stone tool production …

The results of history lie strewn around us, but we cannot, in principle, directly observe the
processes that produced them. How then can we be scientific about the past! As a general …

In Bordes's typology for the Lower and Middle Paleolithic, he defines four major classes of
side scrapers: single, double, convergent, and transverse forms. Data from three Middle …

Procedures by which archaeological stone tools have been analyzed have tradition ally
operated on an apprenticeship model, whereby a novice acquires competency at the elbow …

The hypothesis that the principal varieties of Middle Paleolithic scrapers reflect varying
degrees of resharpening and rejuvenation, rather than discrete emic types, has generated …

For many years, intuition and common sense often guided the transference of patterning
ostensibly evident in experimental flintknapping results to interpretations of the …

The systematic study of chipped stone debitage provides important information about
prehistoric lithic technology. However, the results of most debitage analyses are …

Issues relating to the maintenance and renewal of stone tools have become increasingly
important in studies of prehistoric technologies. This paper presents an index of reduction for …

The aim of the current study was to provide detailed data on the skill at controlling
conchoidal fracture, data that may be used to help infer the processes responsible for …